Taylor (my daughter’s husband’s daughter) swinging in my hammock in the back yard.
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Canada Day 2010 fireworks on parliament hill
I hadn’t seen the July 1 fireworks on parliament hill for years. I took lots of pictures but not many captured the sense of motion and light. This was the one I liked the best.
I didn’t bring a tripod, maybe that would have helped.
Canada Day 2010 Concert on Parliament Hill
We spent the evening of July 1 on parliament hill watching the crowd and listening to music. The crowds were great, the music was OK.
Bayshore
This blog is my attempt to inspire (force/induce/get/push) myself to take pictures and thereby exercise my creative muscles that had been atrophying over the past few years. My goal was to take a (at least one) picture a day and post it here. With one exception I have done that for 53 days. Lately, I have not been happy with my images. Some of them seem rushed or simply desperate attempts to meet the requirement to rake a picture each day. So I have decided to change the criteria for posting. The change will be that I do not have to take a picture every day, but I still have to post each day and the picture posted must have been taken in the previous seven days. My intent is that will give me the opportunity to find photo opportunities farther afield while still leaving me the time to deal with the other things in my life that I can’t ignore – such as work around the home and other interests besides photography.
So, the image above is the first under the new regime. It’s from the same series as this one.
Private Property
While in Toronto yesterday for a seminar, I noticed this arrangement. It’s not quite what I envisaged because once I crouched to get the angle between the murals, sign and the condo, the condo I actually intended to include became obscured by the one you see on the right of the image. I only noticed this once I got home. Apparently, I need a bigger viewer to review images or better eyes.
Simba having his drink of water
Simba, a creature of habit, always comes into the bathroom with me when I have a shower. After my shower he has a drink of water from the sink tap. He used to be able to jump up to the sink on his own. He’s 16 years old now and waits for me to turn on the tap and lift him up. Hopefully someone will be there to do that for me when the time comes.
Heading home
My view of the Glen Isle bridge as I cross it on my way home on a rainy night.
Appleton at night from the bridge
Appleton, as seen from the bridge on a misty night with a full moon.
No Mail
When I stopped to pick up the mail today, this is all I got.
Bus Mall
Today I ran into Ottawa to do some errands. I ended up at Bayshore, a shopping centre in the west end that has a transit mall very close by. The structure looked interesting; so did the movement of people and buses. I took a number of shots. In this one I tried to catch the activity. It does a bit, but by the time I decided what I was trying to capture it was getting dark and I couldn’t wait any longer for more a more active period to happen. I could go during rush hour to really get an active period, or I could focus more on what was available at the time, nice sunlight and interesting architecture.